I hate to obtrude ugly reality - but i think i mentioned that i recently lost one of my oldest friends (forty-five years acquaintanceship) when he fell from his roof doing some sort of minor maintenance.

Proof Positive the world is not flat: If it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.

I believe I recall that's on page 37 of Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations".

Something about "the ten most common 'last pronouncements' of an overly enthusiastic madboy, just before he gets himself cremated, atomized, mulched, eaten by rebellious mucoids, or otherwise taken out of circulation in an extravagant fashion."

A comfortable chair with a seat-belt, a bunch of helium balloons, a long sturdy rope, and you're good to go!

Jabberwonky wrote:I've also seen a couple of boobtube vids of raptors attacking drones. I think anything flying too suspiciously might end up with battle scars...

The Dutch government is actually experimenting with training raptors to target drones. They figure that if hawks and eagles are used by people to take out herons and wolves and whatnot, why not use them on drones as well? Apparently the biggest difficulty is protecting the birds' feet from spinning rotors.

The kids are alright. Rather bold this afternoon, standing around. Saw one of the parents earlier in the day being chased up the street by a Mockingbird.

We had a pretty good blow come through this morning, toppled some trees in the neighborhood, left .625" rain and put plenty of small branch/leaf debris on the ground. Wind gusts of 50+ MPH were reported at the airport.

No new fuzzy birdie pics today. The two yesterday were courtesy of a second day off work due to a cold/sinus thing. I would drag it outside to see if there was any action and managed to get a few shots from ground level. No fiddling on the roof.